Where does Ridge Tool Company rank among US patent assignees?

According to USPTO PatentsView (2015–2025 granted utility patents), Ridge Tool Company ranks #3,634 of 49,997 assignees by granted-patent volume, the same sort as the companies listing and top-holders ranking. See /methodology/#corpus-placement.

How many patents does Ridge Tool Company hold?

Ridge Tool Company holds 101 US utility patents granted between 2015 and 2025, spanning 56 technology areas.

What is Ridge Tool Company's Innovation Score?

Ridge Tool Company has an Innovation Score of 60.0 out of 100 (top 4% of the corpus). This composite metric weighs portfolio volume (40%), grant velocity (20%), technology breadth (25%), and claim depth (15%).

What technology areas does Ridge Tool Company focus on?

Ridge Tool Company's top technology area is B08B (Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General) with 27 patents, ranking #12 of 1,035 assignees active in that subclass. Grants appear in 56 CPC subclasses total.

Is Ridge Tool Company's patent grant rate increasing or decreasing?

Ridge Tool Company's recent grant velocity is +55% compared to the prior five-year period (grant years, not application filing dates). This indicates accelerating grant output.

What does claim depth mean for Ridge Tool Company's patents?

Ridge Tool Company's patents average 16.6 claims each. This is an aggregate descriptive count from the grant record; it does not establish claim scope, legal strength, enforceability, or design-around risk.

How is the Ridge Tool Company patent data sourced?

All patent data comes from USPTO PatentsView, a public research dataset maintained by the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering US granted utility patents from 2015 to 2025.

USPTO 2015–2025 USPTO PatentsView US Corporation

Ridge Tool Company

USPTO PatentsView assignee record - 101 granted patents across 56 technology areas, recorded in grant years 2015–2025. Grant-trend analysis is cross-referenced to USPTO Patent Public Search; it does not measure application filings, current R&D, or legal strength. Primary class: B08B (Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General).

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The verdict

According to USPTO PatentsView, Ridge ranks #3,634 of 49,997 tracked US assignees by granted-patent volume, with 101 patents across 56 technology areas.

#3,634
of 49,997 US assignees by volume: Top 4%
by Innovation Score (60.0/100): 16.6
avg claims per patent: +55%
grant velocity, last 5 yrs

USPTO PatentsView assignee plate

Corpus R3634 · US Corporation #3,634 · 101 grants

GRANTS-MID · TOP-DECILE · PHOTO-FINISH · CPC-WIDE · INNOV-STRONG · CLAIMS-RICH · TYPE-USCORP · VEL-SURGE · BOOK-FULL

GRANTS-MID 101 grants
TOP-DECILE #3,634/49,997
PHOTO-FINISH LaCrosse Footwear
CPC-WIDE B08B · 56 areas
INNOV-STRONG 60.0/100
CLAIMS-RICH 16.6 claims/avg
TYPE-USCORP US Corporation
VEL-SURGE +55% vel
BOOK-FULL 10/10 fields

Nearest grant-volume peer: LaCrosse Footwear, Inc. (±0 grants)

Instrument codes from this assignee’s USPTO PatentsView grant sheet: volume band, corpus rank, photo-finish peer, lead CPC, Innovation Score, claim depth, assignee type, velocity, and book completeness. Not a USPTO rating of patent strength.

How Ridge’s 60.0 Innovation Score adds up

The same four weighted components behind every Innovation Score on PlainPatent: portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth.

Volume 16.0 pts (27%) Velocity 9.0 pts (15%) Breadth 25.0 pts (42%) Claim depth 10.0 pts (17%)

Qualcomm Incorporated · highest

85
Canoo · near

60
JX Advanced Metals · near

60
Oregon State… · near

60
Ridge Tool · this assignee

60
Saipem S P A · near

60
3D Lighting… · lowest

7

What this shows Ridge's Innovation Score is 60.0/100 (top 4% of the PatentsView-derived corpus). The chart places that score against the nearest Innovation Score peers plus corpus poles, not a reprint of the volume ranking.

Does more volume mean deeper claims for Ridge?

Each dot is one of Ridge’s 8 nearest volume peers (same corpus rank neighbourhood as the chart above), placed by total granted patents (horizontal) against average claims per patent (vertical). Ridge’s own 16.6 claims/patent is ABOVE the 12.2 median for these volume peers. More thorough claims than most filers at this scale, not just more of them.

Ridge vs its 8 nearest volume peers: granted patents vs average claims per patent. Source: USPTO PatentsView.

How Ridge's grant cadence moved

Between 2020–2024, Ridge Tool Company received 59 grants versus 38 in 2015–2019 (+55% equal-window velocity, above median growth). Across complete PatentsView years, output peaked in 2023 at 17 grants and bottomed in 2017 at 5. Lead class B08B accounts for 26.7% of the portfolio across 56 subclasses. Volume neighbours: LaCrosse Footwear, Inc. (#3,630) and The Radio Flyer Company (#3,638).

Ridge's three-year grant acceleration

From 2019–2021 to 2022–2024, Ridge Tool Company moved from 28 to 38 grants (1.36x the prior three-year total, a multiple, not a CAGR). Among 3,296 tracked assignees with ≥100 grants and ≥20 prior-period grants, that multiple ranks #568. See the growth leaderboard.

Lacrosse Footwear

101
Nanolumens Acquis…

101
Optum Services (I…

101
Paige AI

101
Semikron Elektron…

101
Sony OF America

101
Tepha

101
The Radio Flyer

101
Ridge Tool ◀

101

What this shows Ridge holds 101 patents at rank #3,634, shown against the 8 assignees closest to it in grant volume rather than the industry's largest filers.

Companies ranked near Ridge

By rank, the assignees closest to #3,634 in granted patent volume.

Leaders in B08B (Cleaning IN General)

Other assignees with the most granted patents in Ridge's primary technology class.

Assignees with similar portfolio profiles

Two PlainPatent-derived peer sets for Ridge, neither rank-band nor same-CPC leaders (those blocks stay above). In B08B (Cleaning IN General), Ridge ranks #12 of 1,035 assignees by patent count in that subclass.

Similar innovation score

Nearest assignees by Innovation Score (60 here).

Saipem S.P.A. 60 Oregon State University 60 JX Advanced Metals Corporation 60 Canoo Technologies Inc. 60

Similar claim depth

Nearest assignees by average claims per patent (16.6 here).

Landa Corporation Ltd. 16.6 avg Lighting Science Group Corporation 16.6 avg Shenzhen Heytap Technology Corp., Ltd. 16.6 avg Abbott Point of Care Inc. 16.6 avg

Ridge's Innovation Score vs. every tracked assignee

Composite of portfolio volume, grant velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth (0–100)

60 Top 4% higher than 96% of 49,997 US assignees

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Source USPTO PatentsView, PlainPatent Innovation Score · 2015–2025

USPTO utility patent grants by year · 2015–2025

Grants by year

Teal-shaded recent years (2020–present) versus the 2015–2019 baseline. Full figures in the table below.

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Ridge Tool Company patent grants by year, 2015–2025
Year	Patents Granted	Share of Period
2015	6	5.9%
2016	7	6.9%
2017	5	5.0%
2018	13	12.9%
2019	7	6.9%
2020	11	10.9%
2021	10	9.9%
2022	9	8.9%
2023	17	16.8%
2024	12	11.9%
2025partial year	4	4.0%

Which technologies does Ridge Tool Company patent most?

B08B - Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General 27

B25B - Tools OR Bench Devices NOT Otherwise Provided FOR, FOR Fastening, Connecting, Disengaging OR Holding 21

E03F - SEWERS; Cesspools 18

E03C - Domestic Plumbing Installations FOR Fresh Water OR Waste Water ; Sinks 14

B23D - PLANING; SLOTTING; SHEARING; BROACHING; SAWING; FILING; SCRAPING; Like Operations FOR Working Metal BY Removing Material, NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 10

B25F - Combination OR Multi-purpose Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR; Details OR Components OF Portable Power-driven Tools NOT Particularly Related TO THE Operations Performed AND NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 8

H01R - Electrically-conductive CONNECTIONS; Structural Associations OF A Plurality OF Mutually-insulated Electrical Connecting ELEMENTS; Coupling DEVICES; Current Collectors 8

Y10T - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former US Classification 8

B21D - Working OR Processing OF Sheet Metal OR Metal Tubes, Rods OR Profiles Without Essentially Removing MATERIAL; Punching Metal 7

F16D - Couplings FOR Transmitting ROTATION; CLUTCHES; Brakes 5

B65H - Handling Thin OR Filamentary Material, e.g. Sheets, Webs, Cables 5

B26D - CUTTING; Details Common TO Machines FOR Perforating, Punching, Cutting-out, Stamping-out OR Severing 4

B27G - Accessory Machines OR Apparatus FOR Working Wood OR Similar MATERIALS; Tools FOR Working Wood OR Similar Materials ; Safety Devices FOR Wood Working Machines OR Tools 4

B26B - Hand-held Cutting Tools NOT Otherwise Provided FOR 3

Y10S - Technical Subjects Covered BY Former Uspc Cross-reference ART Collections [XRACs] AND Digests 3

Top 15 of 56 technology areas

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Data Source

USPTO PatentsView, US granted patents 2015–2025

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What to do with this data

Ridge Tool Company's patent record in context - here's where to go next.

Ridge Tool Company's lead technology class is B08B (Cleaning IN GENERAL; Prevention OF Fouling IN General), 26.7% of its portfolio - see every assignee active in that class. Explore B08B
Ranked #3,634 of 49,997 tracked assignees by patent volume - see the full leaderboard. See the ranking
Compare Ridge Tool Company against LaCrosse Footwear, Inc., an assignee filing at a similar volume. Compare portfolios
Innovation Score of 60.0/100 blends volume, velocity, technology breadth, and claim depth. How it's calculated

Figures reflect USPTO PatentsView grant data through May 2026; pending applications not yet granted are not counted.

Data sourced from USPTO PatentsView - official U.S. government patent data. See our methodology for computation details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPatent

Disclaimer: This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the USPTO PatentsView database. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sources used on this page

USPTO PatentsView - the disambiguated bulk patent-grant, assignee, and CPC data this page's figures are derived from. patentsview.org
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) - the joint USPTO/EPO classification scheme used to group patents by technology area. cooperativepatentclassification.org
USPTO Patent Public Search - the official interface to verify the status of any individual patent. ppubs.uspto.gov

Compiled by PlainPatent , US Patent Intelligence Editorial Process · May 15, 2026

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